arshtater : Irish potato, or just potato if you're not from the south
bager : rutabaga
beans : usually refers to soybeans
butterbeans : lima beans
english peas: peas, green peas
greens : usually refers to turnip; can be mustard or collard; never swiss chard, arrugula, or radicchio
mater : tomato
muskadahms : muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia)
okry : okra
peas : southern peas (pinkeye, blackeye, crowder, etc.)
punkins : pumpkins
scuppernong : muscadine
speargus : asparagus
squarsh : summer squash or zucchini
tater : potato; often this refers to sweetpotato.
yam : sweetpotato (this term is often used incorrectly in Louisiana although the true yam most likely has never been seen there)
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